'I don't want to piss Nicole Kidman off!' Viola Davis jokes she doesn't want an Oscar win over Australian as she wants to be invited to her Sydney mansion
She's an acclaimed actress of screen and stage, nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in Fences.
But despite odds favouring Viola Davis, the 51-year-old confessed she doesn't to beat fellow academy award nominee Nicole Kidman to the statue.
During an interview with The Project on Wednesday, the How To Get Away With Murder star joked that she 'didn't want to piss Nicole Kidman off' by winning the award and missing out on an invitation to her swanky Sydney pad.
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'I don't want to piss Nicole Kidman off!' Viola Davis jokes she doesn't want to win an Oscar over the Aussie actress because she would like to be invited to her swanky Sydney mansion one day
The America actress was promoting her new movie when the interviewer quipped that Viola would be up against Australian golden girl Nicole Kidman, who was also Oscar nominated for her role in Lion.
Viola then confessed to being taken by the Moulin Rouge star's home while in Australia on a previous trip.
'When I was in Sydney I walked by Nicole Kidman's house,' the impressed-sounding actress revealed.
!['I want her to someday invite me to that house': Viola then confessed to being taken by the Moulin Rouge star's home while in Australia on a previous trip](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208204528/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/13/3CF5969C00000578-4203684-image-a-139_1486560566097.jpg)
'I want her to someday invite me to that house': Viola then confessed to being taken by the Moulin Rouge star's home while in Australia on a previous trip
'So I don't want to piss Nicole Kidman off, because I want her to someday invite me to that house.'
Viola also told the Australian panel program she hadn't expected her now-infamous speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month to go viral.
Upon accepting an award for best supporting actress in Fences, an emotional Viola told the audience that racial diversity was vital in telling people's stories.
![Surprised: Viola also told the Australian panel program she hadn't expected her now-infamous speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month to go viral like it had](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208204528/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/13/3CF596A800000578-4203684-image-a-140_1486560569823.jpg)
Surprised: Viola also told the Australian panel program she hadn't expected her now-infamous speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month to go viral like it had
'What August [the writer of the play and the film] did so beautifully is he honored the average man, who happened to be a man of colour,' she said in her speech.
'And sometimes we don't have to shake the world and move the world and create anything that is going to be in the history book.'
'I don't try to make any kind of statement I just try to be who I am,' Viola told The Project.
'And I feel like in being who I am it resonates somehow.'
![Sharing voices: Upon accepting an award for best supporting actress in Fences, an emotional Viola told the audience that racial diversity was vital in telling people's stories](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208204528/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/13/3CC873B800000578-4203684-image-a-141_1486560596051.jpg)
Sharing voices: Upon accepting an award for best supporting actress in Fences, an emotional Viola told the audience that racial diversity was vital in telling people's stories
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